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Longreads Best of 2016: Business & Tech Reporting

We asked a few writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here, the best in business and tech reporting. Read more…

Potential Conflicts Around the Globe for Trump, the Businessman President

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How the president-elect is already mixing personal business with leading the United States.

Published: Nov 28, 2016
Length: 27 minutes (6,977 words)

Mind Your Own Business

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Mindfullness apps: is there actually any benefit to this kind of bite-sized meditation. And what, exactly, are we trying to be mindful of?

Source: The Baffler
Published: May 1, 2015
Length: 9 minutes (2,294 words)

The Business of Too Much TV

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Today, there are more great shows on television than ever before. This age of Peak TV is reshaping the television industry — and affecting the work of everyone, from actors and writers to showrunners and crew members.

Source: www.vulture.com
Published: May 18, 2016
Length: 40 minutes (10,114 words)

Can Ocean Spray CEO Randy Papadellis Save the Cranberry Business?

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Ocean Spray CEO Randy Papadellis once rescued the cranberry industry by popularizing “Craisins.” Can he rescue them again?

Source: Boston Magazine
Published: Apr 17, 2016
Length: 19 minutes (4,754 words)

Longreads Turns Seven Years Old: Unfinished Business

Just a few of the many current Longreads contributors, to whom we are thankful.

Seven years ago this month I started Longreads. To say the word “longread” has taken hold beyond my wildest expectations would be an understatement. It was a Twitter hashtag experiment — which I started because I wanted story recommendations for my subway commute — that turned into a company, a meme, an original publisher, and, of course, an endless cycle of writers debating whether longform storytelling is good or bad for the internet. (Well, thank god for that.) Read more…

Longreads Best of 2015: Business & Tech

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Story picks by Sheelah Kolhatkar, Nitasha Tiku, John Herrman, Ashlee Vance, Kevin Roose, and Mark Armstrong.

Author: Editors
Source: Longreads
Published: Dec 17, 2015

Longreads Best of 2015: Business & Tech

We asked a few writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in specific categories. Here, the best in business and tech.

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Inside Stanford Business School’s Spiraling Sex Scandal

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How a love triangle involving a dean and two married professors blew up at Stanford’s prestigious business school.

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Oct 20, 2015
Length: 28 minutes (7,231 words)

‘We Value Experience’: Can a Secret Society Become a Business?

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Jeff Hull’s Latitude Society explores the possibilities of art, intimacy, experience, and membership.

Source: Longreads
Published: Sep 24, 2015
Length: 30 minutes (7,584 words)